randallsquared comments on The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VAuroch 01 September 2014 04:54:27AM 2 points [-]

Energy acquisition is a useful subgoal for nearly any final goal and has non-starsystem-local scope. This makes strong AIs which stay local implausible.

Comment author: randallsquared 03 September 2014 03:24:49PM 1 point [-]

Especially if the builders are concerned about unintended consequences, the final goal might be relatively narrow and easily achieved, yet result in the wiping out of the builder species.